On 10/25/2012 12:11 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
And I don't think this is a realistic scenario. Why can't you find N other DDs who agree with you that the package should be taken over?
Hum ... and what makes you think that it will always be easy to find people to ACK? Making sure that a package is left unmaintained does take some time.
At the end, some DDs might just send ACK on some hijacking/salvage bugs in the BTS just because they trust their friends, without doing any checks, which would defeat the purpose of such ACK. Some other DDs might decide to just never send ACK because they don't want to be in the middle of a package "ownership" battle. In some other cases, we will see bugs being opened, nobody sending ACK, and the person willing to become the new maintainer not doing anything because not motivated by this. For the case of someone not being a DD, and willing to take over the maintainership, and not knowing a lot of people in the Debian community, this process of ACK / NACK might simply not work at all. I remember when I started a thread about 6 months ago, willing to take over maintainership of a clearly unmaintained package (since then, all other packages of this maintainer have been orphaned...). It (unwillingly) created a huge thread about when and when not taking over a maintainer, with some of the thread participant having no clue what so ever if the old maintainer was still alive or not. All this for what? Avoiding that someone hijacks a package? Does this happen often? If yes, please point to the relevant recent cases, because I must have missed them. I'd be also glad to read what kind of consequences we are facing with more relaxed rules. The rules are already too tight for no reason now, so of course I don't think adding even more paper work for taking over someone who's anyway MIA would be a good thing. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50882bf8.1080...@debian.org